English 2010
To be honest I found this class very challenging. I am an avid reader and as such have a strong sense of grammar and punctuation. I know the difference between affect and effect. I know when to use there, they’re or their. I can also grammar check a paper like nobody’s business. The downside to this is that when taking my placement test I scored in the highest margin of the English portion of the test. I graduated high school in 2000 and this is the first English class I’ve taken in over 12 years, regular high school English is a lot different than collage level English. I had never even heard of MLA formatting before. As you can imagine I felt a little out of my depth, but feeling adventurous (and funding not wanting to pay for a class I tested out of) I girded my loins and took the English 2010 plunge.
As far as evaluating my writing skills I would say I work adequately with description but seem to either lack personality in my writings or add too much when it is not needed. I am very good at being concise, and saying what I need to say in a few words without being to lengthy or wordy. The downside to this of course is trying to stretch out my papers to be the proper length. I think this comes from working with children my whole life. My mother has always been in childcare and I grew up around it. I am used to taking a subject and teaching it to others in the most simple and basic terms, dumbing it down as it were. My writing can lack continuity; I tend to write like I think. I run off on tangents and only half follow them at best, I ramble on about a subject instead of discussing it and my papers tend to hop around. I usually have to revise a paper I am writing several times before I am happy with the result. Most often it takes me the full two weeks to get my paper written once assigned, as you can imagine I nearly panicked when you said we had to complete four of them in two weeks.
When I write I have to lock myself up in my room, minimize distractions and force myself to concentrate. Writing has never come easy to me and to be quite honest I feel that I should have taken a writing class beforehand. I seem to have fewer problems with academic writing because one skill I do have is researching and what other teachers of mine call ‘instant comprehension’. I am quick to pick up the basics of a subject, a jack of all trades but a master of none you could say. I have no problems with researching a subject and compiling what I have found out and putting it into my own words. I have been told my academic papers lack personality but I usually get good marks on them.
Personal writing on the other hand tends to have me grasping at straws. The most difficult assignment for me was the memoir. It was almost physically painful for me to write. As I stated above I have a hard time adding personality and emotion to my papers in appropriate places and my memoir came out reading more like the child observations I have to fill out at my work. I will admit now that I am expecting to take a hit on my memoir revision score. I sat down several times to try and revise the piece but everything I tried to do to it just didn’t fit. I’m more than a little disappointed in myself.
All in all I have found this course most helpful. It helped me to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses as well as given me a wider understanding in paper writing in general. What I have discovered after taking this class is that I do need more help in my paper writing. I am strongly considering taking a course in writing. Most probably creative writing to help me out with the genre I suffer the most with.
As far as evaluating my writing skills I would say I work adequately with description but seem to either lack personality in my writings or add too much when it is not needed. I am very good at being concise, and saying what I need to say in a few words without being to lengthy or wordy. The downside to this of course is trying to stretch out my papers to be the proper length. I think this comes from working with children my whole life. My mother has always been in childcare and I grew up around it. I am used to taking a subject and teaching it to others in the most simple and basic terms, dumbing it down as it were. My writing can lack continuity; I tend to write like I think. I run off on tangents and only half follow them at best, I ramble on about a subject instead of discussing it and my papers tend to hop around. I usually have to revise a paper I am writing several times before I am happy with the result. Most often it takes me the full two weeks to get my paper written once assigned, as you can imagine I nearly panicked when you said we had to complete four of them in two weeks.
When I write I have to lock myself up in my room, minimize distractions and force myself to concentrate. Writing has never come easy to me and to be quite honest I feel that I should have taken a writing class beforehand. I seem to have fewer problems with academic writing because one skill I do have is researching and what other teachers of mine call ‘instant comprehension’. I am quick to pick up the basics of a subject, a jack of all trades but a master of none you could say. I have no problems with researching a subject and compiling what I have found out and putting it into my own words. I have been told my academic papers lack personality but I usually get good marks on them.
Personal writing on the other hand tends to have me grasping at straws. The most difficult assignment for me was the memoir. It was almost physically painful for me to write. As I stated above I have a hard time adding personality and emotion to my papers in appropriate places and my memoir came out reading more like the child observations I have to fill out at my work. I will admit now that I am expecting to take a hit on my memoir revision score. I sat down several times to try and revise the piece but everything I tried to do to it just didn’t fit. I’m more than a little disappointed in myself.
All in all I have found this course most helpful. It helped me to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses as well as given me a wider understanding in paper writing in general. What I have discovered after taking this class is that I do need more help in my paper writing. I am strongly considering taking a course in writing. Most probably creative writing to help me out with the genre I suffer the most with.
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